Fuller World Photography & Travelhttp://michaelfuller.ca
Learn. Connect. Unexpect.Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:36:38 +0000en-AUhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8Prime Time in New York City (USA #2)http://michaelfuller.ca/prime-time-in-new-york-city-usa-2/
http://michaelfuller.ca/prime-time-in-new-york-city-usa-2/#respondThu, 21 Sep 2017 08:01:07 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=5109The Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps. The Empire City. New Amsterdam. Gotham. The Five Boroughs. The City So Nice They Named It Twice. New. York. City. After the west coast climbing adventure and on either side of family Christmas events, I spent a month holed up in a Toronto basement, racing to finish …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/prime-time-in-new-york-city-usa-2/feed/0Panoramerica: Eclectic Scenes from the Wild West (USA #1)http://michaelfuller.ca/panoramerica-eclectic-scenes-from-the-wild-west/
http://michaelfuller.ca/panoramerica-eclectic-scenes-from-the-wild-west/#commentsWed, 28 Jun 2017 13:09:52 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=5015Meet Tim, one of my oldest mates from Perth, a British-born Aussie reliably liable to quip quotably. After completing my tour of Central Asia (which you’ve surely read all about) and some family-recovery time in Canada, it was time for me to realise one of my greatest life ambitions: To become a climbing bum, living …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/panoramerica-eclectic-scenes-from-the-wild-west/feed/4Cuba, On The Brinkhttp://michaelfuller.ca/cuba-on-the-brink/
http://michaelfuller.ca/cuba-on-the-brink/#respondSun, 29 Jan 2017 10:23:25 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4958At the end of 2014, Obama and Castro announced that US-Cuba relations would begin to ‘normalise’. It’s no coincidence that 2015 was Cuba’s biggest year in tourism history. Until 2016 that is, when it over-topped its own record. At the end of 2015, I was in Canada suffering from screen-overload after nearly 6 straight weeks …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/cuba-on-the-brink/feed/0Our Ridiculous Ride on the Pamir Highway (Stans #8)http://michaelfuller.ca/our-ridiculous-ride-on-the-pamir-highway-stans-8/
http://michaelfuller.ca/our-ridiculous-ride-on-the-pamir-highway-stans-8/#respondThu, 19 May 2016 03:28:25 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4926I spent two months in Central Asia, immersing myself in landscapes, history, culture and (mis)adventures. Since then I’ve told you 7 stories of serendipity; great empires; border guards hoping for porn; nomads; and elderly farmers under shady trees amidst a landscape scorched by environmental catastrophe. I’ve shown you 9 photo-essays: From touching the alpine skies of Kyrjikistan, to laying in the depths …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/our-ridiculous-ride-on-the-pamir-highway-stans-8/feed/0Getting High in Tajikistan: Magnificent Mountain Momentshttp://michaelfuller.ca/getting-high-in-tajikistan-magnificent-mountain-moments/
http://michaelfuller.ca/getting-high-in-tajikistan-magnificent-mountain-moments/#commentsWed, 04 May 2016 23:38:23 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4904Tajikistan has some hills. I already told you all about this. But now I want to show you some of these sky-touching scenes from two regions we visited: Kulikalon and the Pamirs. But not just yet! Because you ought to hear how we reached these areas. The first place, Kulikalon – well that won’t take long. Because …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/getting-high-in-tajikistan-magnificent-mountain-moments/feed/2Broken Rules, Broken Roads, and Broken Spirits (Stans #7)http://michaelfuller.ca/broken-rules-broken-roads-and-broken-spirits-stans-7/
http://michaelfuller.ca/broken-rules-broken-roads-and-broken-spirits-stans-7/#respondWed, 13 Apr 2016 15:56:46 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4853It was sometime about an hour after my escape from the bureaucratic clutches of the Uzbeks. That’s when I realised Tajikistan may not have been the panacea it seemed. My shared taxi-driver, delivering me into the capital Dushanbe (affectionally known as ‘the big douche’) was ignoring lane markers and recklessly weaving us between cars. I glanced …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/broken-rules-broken-roads-and-broken-spirits-stans-7/feed/0Escape Velocity (Stans #6)http://michaelfuller.ca/escape-velocity-stans-6/
http://michaelfuller.ca/escape-velocity-stans-6/#respondMon, 14 Mar 2016 21:14:56 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4787I was finally able to eat again. It had been a longer than usual bout of travel sickness. Thirty-six hours straight, either unconscious in bed or dragging myself to the bathroom. I hadn’t eaten a crumb in two days. A Danish doctor on a RTW motorbike trip had confirmed that my strategy – namely, “starving it out” – was a wise one, …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/escape-velocity-stans-6/feed/0Stranger Stories: The People of Uzbekistanhttp://michaelfuller.ca/stranger-stories-the-people-of-uzbekistan/
http://michaelfuller.ca/stranger-stories-the-people-of-uzbekistan/#commentsWed, 24 Feb 2016 17:20:52 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4669During my world wandering I seem to have developed something of a knack for attracting interesting strangers. A conversation, kindled from nothing, can burn for hours. I have asked more than one of these folks: Why’d you speak to me? “You looked open.” Regardless of whether or not that’s true (I’d like to believe it is) this isn’t a lesson …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/stranger-stories-the-people-of-uzbekistan/feed/8Rusted Memories of the Aral Seahttp://michaelfuller.ca/rusted-memories-of-the-aral-sea/
http://michaelfuller.ca/rusted-memories-of-the-aral-sea/#commentsWed, 03 Feb 2016 13:14:31 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4618IT WAS 40˚C IN THE SHADE. Luckily we had some. My Russiaustralian travel-mate Sasha and I sheltered beneath a short, wide tree. Around us, sun-baked fields struggled to grow. It’s like the plants were hesitating to grow any nearer to that scorching fireball in the sky. On one side of us was a single-speed bicycle …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/rusted-memories-of-the-aral-sea/feed/2Street Life in Uzbekistan’s Ancient Citieshttp://michaelfuller.ca/street-life-in-uzbekistans-ancient-cities/
http://michaelfuller.ca/street-life-in-uzbekistans-ancient-cities/#commentsThu, 07 Jan 2016 15:47:00 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4542Borders. Delighting cartographers; thwarting travellers. In Stans #5 I gave you a glimpse of them from the ground-level. In Stans #2 I explained the source of these baffling boundaries, and their ridiculous results: A land minced into enclaves. Cultures cleaved. The Fergana Valley is one such place, a peninsula of Uzbekistan jutting into a sea of Otherstans. …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/street-life-in-uzbekistans-ancient-cities/feed/2Death by Bureaucratic Exhaustion (Stans #5)http://michaelfuller.ca/death-by-bureaucratic-exhaustion-stans-5/
http://michaelfuller.ca/death-by-bureaucratic-exhaustion-stans-5/#respondMon, 28 Dec 2015 19:16:53 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4501The first stage of the infamously frustrating Uzbekistan border-crossing experience is just getting to the customs officials. A dozen hands and nosy eyes examine my passport, inspecting each stamp as if one is going to read “ISIS Training School, Class of 2015”. Border guards, bored. When I eventually get waved in, I fill out a …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/death-by-bureaucratic-exhaustion-stans-5/feed/0The Entire World in a Face: The People of Kyrgyzstanhttp://michaelfuller.ca/the-entire-world-in-a-face-the-people-of-kyrgyzstan/
http://michaelfuller.ca/the-entire-world-in-a-face-the-people-of-kyrgyzstan/#commentsThu, 03 Dec 2015 23:02:45 +0000http://michaelfuller.ca/?p=4471From the thousand-year old epic poem of Manas (the greatest hero in history, by volume), to the still common tradition of bride kidnapping, Kyrgyzstan is a place beyond imagination. In four photo-essays so far, I’ve tried my best to bottle-up some of this country and give you all a sip: Rivers cut their way down narrow valleys, past inquisitive …]]>http://michaelfuller.ca/the-entire-world-in-a-face-the-people-of-kyrgyzstan/feed/6